Suggestions on what is wrong with this chick?

[Celiandy]

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I'm no expert but I believe if you have adult chickens in a different area, you can get cross contamination to the chicks. My chicks just got it recently, they are in the garage away from the adults. I figured it's just because I feed and handle them all in the same time frame.

Glad your chick is feeling better!

 

[marquisella]

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I'm no expert but I believe if you have adult chickens in a different area, you can get cross contamination to the chicks. My chicks just got it recently, they are in the garage away from the adults. I figured it's just because I feed and handle them all in the same time frame.

Glad your chick is feeling better!

You may have contaminated your garage floor by walking through a chicken yard. Chicks pick up cocci by eating off contaminated surfaces where chickens have fouled the area with cocci. Usually a dry surface doesn't lend itself well to transmission. That is why Coccidiosis rears its head during wet & raining weather.

I brood my chicks in cages. That way, I know no adult chicken has deposited feces with cocci in them.

Its when the graduate to the floor of a pen, on the ground, where other chickens have been before them, that they will get it.

Sue

 

[sheila3935]

As far as starting them on medicated chick starter I always give mine medicated from the start. Never had any problems.

 

[HBuehler]

They will not get sick by eating medicated feed before 2 weeks old...including Bantam Ameraucana's. Ours eat it when they hop out of the incubator....we hatch hundreds.We never wear the same shoes in our basement..where the chicks live in cages as we wear outside because they can escape from a cage..have to be real careful.We also spray weekly all the pens/runs and basement with Oxine which keeps all the bad stuff away...can't spray the free range area and that's now the only chickens that have cocci issues...we are on a river with lots of wild birds.
Chicks die for so many reasons..they can look fine one day and be dead the next..Failure to thrive to things unknown..you mention you suspect a cold but could be more serious..a cold would be about as serious as it can get for a baby chick..

 

[geebs]

There are strains of Cocci that medicated feed will not help... use Sulmet... after treatment add a sprinke of Tumeric their feed... and DE